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Report to Centerville Parks and Recreation Committee Festival of the Lakes 8K January 29, 2009 Progress made during January • Runners can register for our event on either Midwest events ar NeedtoRun.corn. I have corrected bath sites so they have the same information. • In addition the events is an several on-line events calendars. o We have our advertisement and we are listed in MDRA bank "Running Minnesota 2009. o Active.com a nation wide 1zsting o Run Across America o "GetinGear" o NeedtoRun.com o Midwest Events • I have found a source for buying, t-shirts, water bottles, goodie bags, and medals if we chose to use them. This source is Sue Ryan, Lino Lakes. She works a franchise out of her home. The corporation is Phoenix Marketing. She is sending catalogs and samples. No commitments have been made. • Randy Fulton, Vacation Sports, White Bear Lake has agreed to provide us a timer. Finding a timer became somewhat of a problem as August $~h is the peak of the season. You may recall that I had talked about using Mary Anderson (MDRA} far timing. When she dropped out because her calendar is fully, she recommended Randy. I had also met Randy Fulton at the Minnesota Race Directors eanference. • Vacation Sports (Randy Fulton) also does T-shirts. I have asked him for a proposal for both race timing and far t-shirts. We have plenty of time to consider both t-shirt proposals from Randy Fulton or Sue Ryan or to accept other offers. I did attend the Race Directors Conference Tan l Ot" sponsored by MDRA. It was well worth my time. From my notes at that eanference, I have written up a plan for this race to include a time line of events. I will bring that plan to a future meeting. Sponsors: • With the help of Teresa and Kim in City offices we have sent out 1 OO letters to all the businesses in the Centerville Economic Development Authority (EDA). Sa the cat is out of the bag. Every business manager or owner in or around Centerville knows about the race and has an opportunity to participate. We are asking larger businesses to sponsor a segment of the race. Smaller business that can not take an a segment may use our event goodie bags as a means of advertising their products/services. We will ask each of these smaller companies for a cash donation. ® Before leaving Minnesota for more southerly latitudes, I paid a visit to Mark Hartman, Festival Foods. MR Hartman was very supportive.